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Baudelaire's gloomy intensity and obvious poetic ability, soon made him a marked man in a Paris that swarmed with talents. One of the first Frenchmen to discover Edgar Allan Poe (whom he considered his affinity), Baudelaire was Poe's French translator, and some critics aver the translation betters the original. With no sense of money, he was never out of debt; and his poverty, complicated by Luciferian pride and creeping illness, might have brought him to an unknown end had it not been for his mother and his friends who loved him. He died...
...decided success. Apart from the fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public he is already becoming a Character, classed with Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Lord Byron, among the rips, rakes, and naughty fellows of the arts...
...Last week President & Mrs. Hoover gave their son Allan his annual White House party. Two hundred young people were invited for 10 p. m. Honor guest was Miss Fannie Homans of Boston, niece of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, and great-great-great-granddaughter of President John Adams. She danced the first dance with Host Allan in the same East Room where her great-great-great-grandmother Abigail used to dry the family wash. As a mark of favor at supper she was served the first slice of cake from a cake plate used in the White House...
...were extinguished and President Hoover, carrying a candle like the others, led his small guests round and about through the darkened rooms singing carols. Mrs. Hoover at the end of the procession rounded up stragglers. When the lights Hashed up in the East Room, the President's son Allan, home from Harvard Business School, officiated in the distribution of presents and gimcracks from a huge star-topped tree. Next morning the Hoovers, old and young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise...
...George William Norris took the opportunity to sermonize on the unequal distribution of wealth. Said he: "I read with great interest about the Doherty ball given here while across the street they were feeding the hungry. I don't see how they had the heart to do it." Allan Hoover's favorite orchestra was at the Doherty party, but he went that night to a smaller affair (250 guests) given by Governor of the Federal Reserve Board & Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. for their daughter Elizabeth. It was a post-debut celebration (Debutante Meyer came out the week before...